20th
So here's my plan
Been twittering about this a bit, but @ericmortensen and I really hashed it out tonight. I think the world — and by world, i mean the community of people who make heavy use things like twitter, tumblr, blip, flickr, etc — the world needs a tool that’s sort of the opposite of friendfeed.
This tool should take anything, short text, long text, pictures, videos, etc, and send it to the appropriate places based on context. I start typing into the tool and while it’s less than 120 chars it’s in the form of a twitter. If I start applying formatting, or type more than 120 chars it becomes a blog post. If I drag an image into the tool it becomes a flickr post. Video, it goes to blip (or youtube or whomever — i’m not into walls). Mixed media (text + photo) goes to both blog and flickr. You get the idea.
The tool should also have incoming data. Anything in RSS should go into the stream and be formatted like a twitter, but bigger pieces of data can be expanded. I should be able to just follow this stream and turn around and re-twitter/blog/flickr/blip any of it. And of course there should be an optional desktop application so that people can just integrate it into their lives without having to dedicate a browser to it.
I call this tool a stream of consciousness tool. The particular one I’m envisioning would be called SoC25, but only because I like the way that sounds. “You’re SoCing in it”. Imagine replacing your twitterific (or what not) with this tool. An idea pops into your head in the morning and you blurt it out on twitter. As the day progresses and you receive feedback the idea grows, and it becomes a blog post. Maybe you draw a diagram or make a video talking about it and a flickr or blip goes out. You should just be able to vomit information onto SoC25 and it “does the right thing”.
Now to find the time to build it..